Mental Health Nursing

 NUR 4445 Mental Health Nursing

Mental Status Examination Form Guidelines

Name_Olufunke Onifade__ Date__3/17/21____________

Objectives 

1. Enhance student’s observation and assessment skills.

2. Increase student’s awareness of physical, cognitive, psychosocial changes related to mental illness. 

3. Facilitate student’s knowledge of risk factors related to mental illness, treatment and rehabilitation. 

4. Perform mental status examination on patients with mental illness. 

Instructions:  

1. Select a patient from assigned unit. 

2. Obtain approval from the primary RN and clinical instructor for appropriateness of patient. 

3. Complete and submit the Mental Status Examination form as scheduled by your clinical instructor. 

4. Review the Mental Status Examination (MSE) grading rubric.

5. Upload completed assignment to BrightSpace.